Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 24

The king's son put his hands about the raven before his wings, and, before he stopped, he took him over nine Bens, and nine Glens, and nine Mountain Moors.

Who acts: son · What happens: put, stop, take · To what, where: hands, king

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 raven	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 raven	det
10	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 wings	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 stopped	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stopped	nsubj
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopped	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	over	over	ADV	_	25 nine	advmod
25	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 Bens	nummod
26	Bens	ben	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Glens	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Glens	cc
29	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 Glens	nummod
30	Glens	glen	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Moors	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Moors	cc
33	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 Moors	nummod
34	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Moors	compound
35	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the king's son	son's hands	before son's wings	about the raven	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme about raven=Destination
2	stop	past	son				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	take	past	son	king		nine Glens obl; nine Mountain Moors obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme ben=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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